How to configure Far Manager home directory?

Question

Far is great to work in Windows environment. But only one annoys me: when I do cd ~ in Far console I get into C:\Program Files\Far Manager

How it can be configured ? F9 Options & Google Search didn't provide any information

Solution

Admittedly, I had to peek around the sources to find the answer. Go to Menu (F9) → Options → Command line settings and change the Use home dir setting to your liking. The default setting is %FARHOME%, which is far's home directory. So, for example, if you want behaviour like *nix, where cd ~ changes the directory to the current user's home directory, use %USERPROFILE%.

Disclaimer: This option being more or less undocumented, I don't know if it has any side effects.

Comments

[Amadou Kone]

This works for me, but every time I restart the computer, the home directory is back to %FARHOME%. Is there any way to make the new directory more persistent?

[zb226]

@AmadouKone That would only make sense if you've got Menu (F9) → Options → System Settings → Auto save setup disabled. Either enable that or use Menu (F9) → Options → Save setup manually.

[Amadou Kone]

that fixed it! Thanks.